Electric bath apparatus.



No. 703,826. Patented luly I, |902.

J. D. RANDALL, Decd. y

.l. E. RANDALL, Adminsiratrx. ELECTRIC BATH APPARATUS.

' (Application led Feb. 5, 1901.\

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UNITED STATESPATENT EFICE.

JAMES DENNISoN RANDALL, oF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, ASSIeNoR E ONE- HALE To JOSEPH w. BUCHANAN, ou MEMPHIS, rrENNESSEE, IosEPIIINE E. RANDALL ADMINISTRATRIx or SAID JAMES DENNIsoN RANDALL, DECEASED. f

ELECTRIC BATH APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 703,826, dated July 1, 1902.

Application iiled February 5, 1901. ,Serial No. 46.062. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- the top to the bottom and, as indicated, are ino Be it known that I, JAMES DENNISON RAN- sulated one from another by means ofthe par- DALL,acitizen oftheUnited States, andaresi allel walls of the cylinder. The conductors dent of Memphis, in the county of Shelby and may consist of wire or of fiat metal strips.

5 State ot'vTennessee, have invented a new and The several conductors are of equal resist- Improved Electric Bath Apparatus, ot' which ance, and one terminal of each conductor is 55 the following is a full, clear, and exact deconnected toawire 15, (see Fig. 4,) which has scription. a connection 16 with a switch 17, operating This invention relates to improvements in over a rheostat 18, arranged in the circuit Io apparatus or cabinets for giving electricallyleading from any desired sotirce of electricity.

heated air-baths to invalids afiiicted with va- The other terminals of the conductors con- 6o rious forms of diseases; and the object is to neet, respectively, with contact-points 19, 20,

provide an apparatus of this character so arand 21, adapted for connection with the sevranged that it may be lowered or placed over eral switches 22, 23, and2et, having conneca person and varying degrees of heat be protion with the other line-wire. The several duced by an electric current. conductors extend from the cabinet to the 65 Iwill'describe the apparatus embodyingmy fixed switchboard, as shown in Fig. 1.

invention and then indicate the novel fea- In operation the current may be regulated tures in the appended claims. A by the rheostat, and should it be desired to zo Reference is to be had to the accompanying heat but one of the conductors its switch only drawings, forming apart of thisspecication, will be closed. For instance, in closing the 7o in which similarcharacters of reference indiswitch 22 the current will pass through the cate corresponding parts in all the iigures. inner conductor 12, which will provide a cer- Figure l isa perspective view showing the tain degree of heat. Should a greater heat 25 apparatus in use. Fig.'2 is a Vertical section be desired, the switch 23 is to be closed, and

0i' the cabinet. A Fig. 3 is abroken View repshould a still greater heat be desired the 75 resenting a portion of the cabinet and parswitch 24 will also be closed, and therefore ticularly illustrating the arrangement of the the current will be divided and pass through conductors between the Walls. Fig. l is a the several helical conductors.

3o diagrammatic view of the electric circuit. Vhile I have Shown but three helical con- The apparatus comprises a cabinet 5 of any ductors, it is obvious that a greater number 8o suitable shape and dimensions. It is here may be employed. shown as arigid cylindrical body open at the An advantage of this apparatus is that bottom and having a top closure 6, provided there are no liquids used, and the only moiswith an opening 7, through which a person7s ture produced on a person seated Within the head may pass. The cabinet is raised and cabinet must come from the body, and this 85 lowered, as here shown, bytackle @,connected of itself is benecial. vAnother advantage is with ropes or the like h, attached to the upthat a patient is placed in an electric ield per end of the cabinet. The cabinet is formed surrounded by an electrical atmosphere, and

4o of a Suitable non-combustible and electric inwhen thus placed the wires become heated sulating materiale-such, for instance, as asfrom the electric current, which heats the air 9o bestesarrangedona suitable frame. Ithas in the cabinet until the patient perspires inner and outer walls 8 9 and intermediate freely. walls 10 11. vBetween the wallsS and lO is The slack wires extending between the arranged an electric conductor 12. Between switch apparatus and the cylinder 5 allow the the walls v10 and 11 is another electric conduclatter to be raised and lowered as may be rc- 95 tor 13, and between the Walls 11 and 9 is a quired. third conductor14. These several conductors The cabinet may be raised slightly when are helically wound around tho cabinet from the heat is excessive or too great and the same thereby reduced to any desired degree. If desired, the free end of the rope may be passed into the cabinet through the top opening thereof, and the party being treated may thus easily raise the cabinet to allow entrance of cool air.

Vhen the cabinet is not required for use, it is hoisted and suspended out of the way by means of the tackle a.

Having thus described my invention, l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. An electric bath apparatus, comprising a cabinet open at the bottom and having` a top closure provided with an opening, a plurality ol electroheating helices arranged around the cabinet concentrically and insulated one from another, the several conductors having each one terminal connected-to a Wire adapted for connection with an electric line-wire, and switches for closing the other line-Wire with the other terminals of the condu ctors.

2. An electric bath apparatus, comprising a rigid barrel-like body which is open at the bottom, to allow it to be placed over a patient, and having a top provided with an opening for the head of the patient, a plurality of electric heating helices arranged around such. body concentrically and insulated one from another in the body of the same and having each one terminal connected to a wire adapted for connection With an electric line-wire, and a switch for closing the other line-wire with the other terminal, the conductors being slack as shown and described.

JAMES DENNISON RANDALL. Witnesses:

H. D. MINOR, J. W. BUCHANAN. 

